you have an advantage, you use it. kennedy just didn't want to subscribe to this, and he thought they were off the wall. he just resisted their advice. >> the missile crisis is rivetting and you tell the stories of the generals who are keen to absolutely have nuclear escalation and many of the advisors, including bundy, pushing him in the same direction, and the whole thing seems to have been saved slow communication, the fact they were able to get two letters from khrushchev in responsible to the second one, the peaceful one. could the world have been saved in the age of the internet? >> well, that's -- yeah, it's such a different world. it's so changed. and could kennedy have gotten away with the compulsive womanizing? could he have hidden his health problems? floshbill clinton found out, this is not something you can get away with. and -- but it was a different time. and i interviewed several journalists, my first book on kennedy, and i asked them if they knew about the womanizing, and they said, yes, they did. but